Finding new materials or innovative clashes and combinations of materials when you work in design is the key to create something original and unique. Art gives us a hand: throughout the decades, different artists turned the most unusual materials into something extraordinary.
Marisa Merz, the only female exponent of the Arte Povera group and one of the most outstanding protagonists of the 1960s Italian art scene, created sculptures knitting copper wire to comment about women and domestic labour. Merz also created golden boxes containing paraffin, flowers and petals.
These works are highly symbolic and poetical as well: frozen in paraffin, the flowers and petals are suspended in time. This could be an interesting idea for jewels maybe rather than clothes - incapsulating into a wearable accessory paraffin and flowers or other objects.
One of Merz's paraffin boxes (the second one in this post) will be exhibited by Richard Saltoun's Gallery at the Art Monte Carlo fair (14th-17th July) with works by Bracha, Louise Bourgeois, Sandro Chia, Bice Lazzari, Barbara Levittoux-Swiderska, Bertina Lopes, Francis Picabia, Franca Maranò, Greta Schödl, Niki de Saint Phalle and Andy Warhol.
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